1. World Poetry Day--absolutely a first rate holiday, be you a fan of rhyme,
limericks, free verse, blank verse or haiku---great day to go to my poetry
blogs mentioned below.
2. National Puppy Day--celebrated since 2006 to honor man's best young friends and create
awareness on puppy mills and the suffering of homeless puppies.
3. International Day of the Forests--created by the U.N. in 2012 to promote the role of
forests as critical parts of our ecosystem and to seek means of preserving
them--deforestation of the rain forests today a major environmental and social
concern.
4.
National Common Courtesy Day--celebrating sadly a lost art especially in the halls of Congress and the
White House or in restaurants and movie theaters with cell phone usage.
On this day in:
a. 1960 in Sharpeville, South Africa,
police opened fire on Black unarmed demonstrators, killing 69, including 8 women and 10 children, and
wounding 180, including 31 women and 19 children. Many of the dead and wounded
were shot in the back and their sacrifice marked the beginning of the isolation
of South Africa from the international community due to apartheid and is commemorated today by The
International Day to End Racial Discrimination and Human Rights Day in South Africa.
b. 1980 in what has to rank as a
major "oops," the word "control"
became the first typo in the history of the Time Magazine cover, being
spelled "cotrol." Wonder
whether the proofreading staff lost any jobs or whether the error was on
purpose to speed the acquisition of spellcheck.
c. 1999 Bertrand Piccard and Brian
Jones became the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. Their
non-stop flight took far less than David Niven's 80 days, clocking in at 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes.
Be it
simple "roses are red, violets are blue"
Or deeper
sonnets, sagas, limericks or Haiku
Enjoy a
poem to elate, emote, weep, laugh or inspire
After
eyes weary, bleary reading contracts to tire
Prose
with subsections and references is like the 405 on a Friday rush hour
But a
poem is an uncrowded autobahn to a date with a creative, higher power!
© March 21, 2014 the Alaskanpoet, in
honor of World Poetry Day.
Please enjoy the 140
character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like
them, retweet and join almost 140 growing followers and please follow
me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my
blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
for poems on the Mustangs going to the Dance with a losing record; to honor
Cindy Abbott, a half blind 54 year old mother suffering from a rare disease who
competed in last year's Iditarod until forced out with a broken pelvis after
600 miles; on Bode Miller and the human spirit; for Cupid on Valentine's Day;
to honor Cory Remsburg to join a great collection of my poems to inspire,
touch, emote, elate and enjoy. Go to Rhymes On The Newsworthy
Times for poems on the death of Pastor Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro
Baptist Church; Obama's "sanctions" compared to Rolling Thunder 49
years ago: Mustangs advance in the Dance
to await the Shockers; Russian Roulette with Putin; EPA's war against a Wyoming
family; on Jolly's upset win over Sink in the House's 13th District of Florida;
China's red line on war in Korea; De Blasio's payback to his union contributors
by attacking charter schools; Rutgers' faculty despicable attempt to ban Condi
Rice from being a commencement speaker; Newport Beach's assault on recovery
homes, including the Ohio House; on students protesting Keystone XL as the
world's largest oil producer militarily occupies the Crimea: the banning the
wearing of the American flag on Cinco de Mayo to join numerous other comments
on news events always in rhyme of course.
©March 21, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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